He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men. Gilbert K. Chesterton More Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton More Quotes From Gilbert K. Chesterton We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot. Gilbert K. Chesterton vices real men We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper. Gilbert K. Chesterton age littles men I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule. Gilbert K. Chesterton fighting real people We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends for modesty, freshness, and simplicity of heart. Whatever may be the reason, we all do warmly respect humility - in other people. Gilbert K. Chesterton humility heart people The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich. Gilbert K. Chesterton doe kindness character Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means. Gilbert K. Chesterton dickens mean The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously: or the cause actually be found after the effect. Errors will be resisted before they have been properly promulgated: notions will be first defined long after they are dead. Gilbert K. Chesterton errors long moving In every serious doctrine of the destiny of men, there is some trace of the doctrine of the equality of men. But the capitalist really depends on some religion of inequality. The capitalist must somehow distinguish himself from human kind; he must be obviously above it or he would be obviously below it. Gilbert K. Chesterton doctrine destiny men A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve. Gilbert K. Chesterton reform doe men There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Men do not quarrel about the meaning of sunsets; they never dispute that the hawthorn says the best and wittiest thing about the spring. Gilbert K. Chesterton sunset eye spring The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive. Gilbert K. Chesterton moss rolling rocks America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement. Gilbert K. Chesterton coarse delicacy america Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been. Gilbert K. Chesterton genius might men If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him. Gilbert K. Chesterton behinds want men If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it. Gilbert K. Chesterton ought done danger Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass. Gilbert K. Chesterton horse cutting white The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child. Gilbert K. Chesterton guessing children ideas It is the simple truth that man does differ from the brutes in kind and not in degree; and the proof of it is here; that it sounds like a truism to say that the most primitive man drew a picture of a monkey and that it sounds like a joke to say that the most intelligent monkey drew a picture of a man. Something of division and disproportion has appeared; and it is unique. Art is the signature of man. Gilbert K. Chesterton intelligent unique art Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen. Gilbert K. Chesterton war past ideas And I will add this point of merely personal experience of humanity: when men have a real explanation they explain it, eagerly and copiously and in common speech, as Huxley freely gave it when he thought he had it. When they have no explanation to offer, they give short dignified replies, disdainful of the ignorance of the multitude. Gilbert K. Chesterton ignorance real men
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